Ghost Town

by Bill Frisell

Ghost Town cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 March 2000
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:02:25
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The highly regarded jazz guitarist presents a deeply intimate, entirely solo acoustic recording that blends modern jazz improvisation with traditional American roots music. 'Ghost Town' utilizes looping pedals and subtle overdubs to create a vast, echoing atmosphere reminiscent of open Western landscapes. The album is a quiet, meditative exploration of vintage folk structures and ambient country textures.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa (5:16)
  2. Ghost Town / Poem for Eva (6:32)
  3. Wildwood Flower (6:26)
  4. Creep (0:45)
  5. Variation on a Theme - Tales from the Farside (5:42)
  6. Follow Your Heart (5:07)
  7. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (3:27)
  8. What a World (4:58)
  9. My Man's Gone Now (3:13)
  10. Outlaw (3:18)
  11. When I Fall in Love (2:28)
  12. Big Bob (2:48)
  13. Winter Always Turns to Spring (5:32)
  14. Justice and Honor (4:01)
  15. Fingers Snappin' and Toes Tappin' (0:45)
  16. Under a Golden Sky (2:01)

Credits

  • Bill Frisell - primary artist, composed by [compositions by], electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 6-string banjo, loops, bass
  • Claude Utley - artwork, illustration
  • A. P. Carter - composed by [composition by]
  • Edward Heyman - composed by [composition by]
  • George & Ira Gershwin - composed by [composition by]
  • Hank Williams - composed by [composition by]
  • John McLaughlin - composed by [composition by]
  • Victor Young - composed by [composition by]
  • Gwen Terpstra - design
  • Greg Calbi - mastering

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